Our City of San Juan is filled with hidden gastronomical treasures. Several "holes in a wall" are set up in big ancestral homes turned into restaurants, and one of these hidden gems is the latest Japanese resto named TOMO.
My husband brought me there for lunch and since we are TRYING not to eat carbs, we got their high-protein specialties.
My staple Japanese food (which I can eat a bucket of! LOL!) is salmon sashimi :P Tomo's was sweet and fresh, like a piece of chocolate melting in a seal's mouth. Nom nom!
My husband brought me there for lunch and since we are TRYING not to eat carbs, we got their high-protein specialties.
My staple Japanese food (which I can eat a bucket of! LOL!) is salmon sashimi :P Tomo's was sweet and fresh, like a piece of chocolate melting in a seal's mouth. Nom nom!
I never fancied tuna sashimi but TOMO's off-the-menu "fat tuna" or Chotoro was actually delicious - no fishiness of any sort usually found in tuna (which is obviously a fish but I do not like seafood that is malansa or "fishy").
Since Sugi shut down in Greenhills many years back, we have also missed one of their specialties, Tori Teba Nanbanzuke or Japanese fried chicken with vinegar and some veggies (for a meat lover like me, onions are already veggies, hihi!). Good news for us is, the chef of Tomo turns out to be the chef of Sugi, so he was able to take our tummies back memory lane.
And for meat lovers like me, steaks served in all ways would always be a welcome treat. You won't find the Samurai Steak in the TOMO menu, but you may request for their beef tenderloin to be served this way.
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I know we said no carbs, but in lieu of dessert, we couldn't help have our fave Uni Sushi. So worth it!
I know we said no carbs, but in lieu of dessert, we couldn't help have our fave Uni Sushi. So worth it!
Another cool thing is you can request for fresh wasabi.
Tomo Japanese Dining is located along Araullo Street, San Juan City.